Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed

Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotio

A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.